The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-31
SOTTO VOCE.


made some Yerv astounding arguments
for lawyer. He deliberately and fairly
reviewed the career of the Mormon
church from its inception, and squarely
reclteo the mobbjngs, suferings, hound
ings and driVings the people had suf-
fered IN the east-concludIng with the
assassination ofiJoen Smith and his
brother Hymn (why not .Hy" Mr..
Marshal? p He used the term "assas-
sination but after moments hest
fancy. For what purpose was this done,
do you think3 In cool blood-to show
| that the mobbers, hounders, drivers
and sssassinators had the right of it
all on their side! Mr.. Marshall could
see that 1t was the Mormons who had
brought it all on themselves; the spec
tacie OF lawless rufhans hunting women
and children, Of a governors piighted
faith broken, of justice bleeding
and liberty weeping had no place in the
gentleman's vision. His auditors will
wonder how he came to leave the muir
derers of Joseph Standing. of young
Gibbs and of Berry out of his catalogue
of encomiums. --s..
ONE INVoLUNTARILY takes off his hat
and stands Inundated in the presence
of the thought that the same town he
halls from produces the Salt Lake Tri-
6tsre. Since the death Of President
Taylor and up to his funeral
the shuddering jests, horrors, vul-
garities and blackguardisms that
sheet has perpetrated in relation
to the deadsman and his family have
been matters surely without parallel
even in the Tribune's record of SANDER
and infamy. With the most sanity
mein it opens out by saying that it
comes down to.us from time immem
Orial that no III must be spoken of the
dead, and then proceeds to speak all
the i'll possible; the last rites paid to
his memory are written OF in the same
vein that 9 Punch and Judy show
would be; throughout the subject is
treated with a brutality and leyity a
little short of astounding, and the torn
feelings :of the family and friends are
regarded Just as much as if they were
SO many blocks or stones.
EVEN STILL more revoltingly brutal
is the manner in which these scorpion
souled ghouls write of Mr.. D. 81. Wells.
This gentleman, with a record and
a reputation at home and abroad
for purity, probity honor and
honesty "a reputation known to
no one better than these slayers of rep
utation-comes home after a three
years absence in Europe, and his re-
turn being more or less a, surprise, he is
naturally most warmly and affection
ately greeted by host of old friends
1t might be supposed that the white
hairs of the gentleman would secure
him from ribald jests, if it did not OBJ
tain for him respectful mention; but on
10 ho
Tribune is moved to say that wells
was as much an attraction as the other
corpse" And this horrible coarseness
is but sample of the constantly in
creasing reading matter that Lannan,
Goodwin and Nelson turn out to the
American ladies and gentlemen" of
the community. 1t is impossible, how
ever, that such utterances reflect the
best Gentle sentiment.
THE TRUTH of the following is the only
excuse for its being printed. Deputy
marshals have some extraordinary
incentive for discovering the place
of President Taylor's death. One
of them happened to know that GER
tain foreign little shoe maker, of this
city, in earlier and better days, had
taught the deceased President the
French language, and had been other
wise intimate with him. Thinking that
the shoe maker might be posted on
what he most ardently desired to learn,
communicative in his cups, the deputy
invited him to a saloon, and after the
drinks had passed round several times,
asked:
"See here, -, do you know where
John TaVIor died ?'i
The little man winked knowingly
over the top of his glass.
You do?" exclaimed the deputy,
eagerly, bending closer; "Where?"
I'm ped"
With a look of supreme disgust, the
deputy paid for the drinks and de
parted.
THERE IS something irresistibly hu-
morous in the account that comes
from Provo, of the Liberals hiring
band, parading the streets, and in other
ways booming grand rally of
the party for meeting on a
certain night. When night came there
were twenty-five people in the hall,
and to the CONSERVATION OF the Liberals
fifteen of them were Mormons. The
Liberals saw that there was not much
CQd0C6 lOT IOuS1uS Any ohN SOAS
one moved to adjourn. When the vote
was taken there were ayes and 10
noes, the Mormons voting solidly IN
favor of seeing thething through. At |
that the Lbs went on and delivered the |
usual copyrighted speeches, but why |
their opponents did not carry the joke |
through, elect their own chairman and |
adopt ringing resolutions endorsing the |
PeopIe's nominees and the State Con- |
stitution, is one of the things undis-
coYerable.
ONE OF the best known of our local
home missionaries and preachers is the
an biect of the following yarn:
He was once at q friends house In
one of the settlements near by, where
he arrived late one evening after long
dev's travel. tired and hungry. Not
being asked if he had had supper, and
therefore, he was going to
pet none he decided to go to bed, and
being left alone, accordingly retired to
his Chamber adjoining, while the fam
iiv we're in another part Of the house:
While disrobing, his keen sense OF
smell sharpened abnormally by hun
oer detected the savory odor of mince
SSjaS He was not long in discovering